Immigration History
“Immigration at San Francisco” in James Ciment, ed., Encyclopedia of American Immigration, Second Edition: An Encyclopedia of Political, Social, and Cultural Change. (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2013)
“America’s Immigration Ports of Entry” in Elliott Barkan, ed., Immigrants in American History: Arrival, Adaptation and Integration (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Books, 2013), Vol. 4: Issues in U.S. Immigration, pp. 1465-84
“Angel Island and the Control of Immigrant Entry at San Francisco” in Michael C. LeMay, ed., Transforming America: Perspectives on U.S. Immigration (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Books, 2013). Volume Two: The Transformation of a Nation of Nations: 1865 to 1945, pp. 151-173.
“Immigrants at the Gates”, a review essay of American Passage: The History of Ellis Island and Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America, in Journal of Economic History, March 2011, Vol. 71, No. 1, pp. 245-7
“Detention at Angel Island: First Empirical Evidence,” with Gustavo Bobonis. Social Science History, Spring 2006, Vol. 30, No. 1, 103-36
“International Migration” chapter, with Susan B. Carter and Richard Sutch, in Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch, and Gavin Wright, eds. Historical Statistics of the United States, Earliest Times to the Present, Millennial Edition (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006). Vol. I, pp. 523-652
“An Alleged Wife: One Immigrant in the Chinese Exclusion Era,” Prologue, A Quarterly Publication of the National Archives and Records Administration, Spring 2004, vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 24-35. Reprinted as feature article in on-line edition of Immigration Daily, May 26, 2005; http://www.ilw.com/lawyers/articles/2005,0527-barde.shtm
“The EARS Have It: Web-Searching For Immigration Case Files From the Chinese Exclusion Era,” with William Greene and Daniel Nealand, Prologue, A Quarterly Publication of the National Archives and Records Administration, Fall 2003, Vol. 35, No. 3, 42-5
(Early Arrivals Records Search website, developed in collaboration with the National Archives and Records Administration for web-searching for immigration investigation case files from the Chinese Exclusion era. Now maintained by UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library
Health and Immigration
Creating a Health Research and Policy Agenda for Im/migration Between Mexico and California (2009). Brindis, C.D., Macfarlane, S.B., Barde, R.., Castaneda, X., Gonzalez-Figueroa, E., Guendelman, S., Infante-Xibille, C., Miller-Vostrejs, M., Munoz, P., Ojeda, G., Lubbock, L.A. San Francisco, CA: The University of California, San Francisco Global Health Sciences and the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies. Berkeley, CA: The University of California, Berkeley, Institute of Business and Economic Research, Health Initiative of the Americas and California Program on Access to Care
“The San Francisco Plague: 1900-1908” in Ballard Campbell, ed., Disasters, Accidents, and Crises in American History (New York: Facts on File, 2008)
Review of When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America and the Fears They Have Unleashed, for Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 2006, Vol. 61, No.3, pp. 402-4
Review of Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu’s Chinatown, for Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, July 2005, Vol. 60, No. 3, pp. 374-6
Review of Science at the Borders: Immigrant Medical Inspection and the Shaping of the Modern Industrial Labor Force, for Journal of American Ethnic History, Spring 2004, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 106-7
Review of Michelle T. Moran, Colonizing Leprosy: Imperialism and the Politics of Public Health in the United States, for Journal of American History, December 2008, vol. 94, No. 3, p. 867
Review of Alan M. Kraut and Deborah A. Kraut, Covenant of Care: Newark Beth Israel and the Jewish Hospital in America, for Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 2007, Vol. 62, No. 4, pp. 545-7
“Plague in San Francisco: An Essay Review” (of The Barbary Plague and Contagious Divides), Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences July 2004, Vol. 59, pp. 463-9
“Prelude to the Plague: Public Health and Politics at America’s Pacific Gateway, 1899,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, April 2003, Vol., 58, pp. 153-186
Maritime History
“High Times on the Pacific”, Southern California Quarterly, 2012, Vol. 94, No. 4, pp. 479-483
“The China II” in Pacific Mail Steamships, Robert Chandler, ed. (Book Club of California, San Francisco, 2011)
Review of Lorraine McConaghy, Warship Under Sail: The USS Decatur in the Pacific West, Pacific Historical Review, February 2011, Vol. 80, No. 1, pp. 162-3
“For the Benefit of Any Friends…Who May be Unacquainted with Shipboard Life: John O. Falkinburg’s 1867 Diary from Sea, USS Iroquois” in Sea History, 124, Autumn 2008, pp. 16-19
“Pacific Steerage: Japanese Ships and Asian Mass Migration,” with Wesley Ueunten, review essay on Fune Ni Miru Nihonjin Iminshi: Kasato Maru kara kuruzu kyakusen e [“Japanese Emigration History As Seen Through Ships: From the Kasato Maru to Passenger Liners”] by Michio Yamada. Pacific Historical Review, November 2004, pp. 653-60
“The Scandalous Ship Mongolia,” Steamboat Bill (Journal of the Steamship Historical Society of America), August 2004, No.250, pp. 112-18
African Art
"Out of Africa," review of Africa Explores: 20th century African Art at the University Art Museum, Oakland Tribune (Sunday Magazine section), November 17, 1991
"Sam Ade Babarinsa," African Arts, Vol. XV, No. 1, 1981
"Bruce Onobrakpeya," Black Art, Vol. IV, No.3, 1981
"Glass Paintings from Senegal," African Arts, Vol. XIII, No. 4, 1980
"Henry Tayali, Zambian Printmaker," African Arts, Vol. XIII, No. 3, 1980
“Contemporary Art of Senegal," African Arts, Vol. XIII, No. 2, 1980
"Mathias Muleme," (article on Ugandan printmaker) Spear, Vol. 7, No. 8, March 1978
"Skunder Boghossian," (article on Ethiopian painter) Spear, Vol. 7, No. 6, January 1978
"Papa Ibra Taal," African Arts, Vol. XI, No.1, 1977
"Souley Keita of Senegal," African Arts, Vol. X, No.3, 1977
Other Publications
"Japan's Oceanic Grace Sails with Mixed Reviews," TravelAge West, October 1989
"The Natural Laws of Travel in Kenya," TravelAge West, October 1987
"A Night on the Commune," TravelAge West, September 1987
Seniority magazine, Vol. II, No. 2, 1984. Cover photograph (of Nepal) and four others
Translations from French into English for chapters by Eliane de Latour and Jean-Pierre Shaveau in Peasants in Africa: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Martin Klein, ed. (Sage, Beverly Hills. 1980)
Unpublished pieces
review of Military Brats: Legacies of Childhood Inside the Fortress, by Mary Edwards Wertsch. Harmony Books, New York, 1991.
review of "THE HERE AND THE HEREAFTER: IMAGES OF PARADISE IN ISLAMIC ART" University Art Museum, UC Berkeley, January 23-March 29, [review by Bob Barde, February 28, 1992]
"The Wines of China", written with May Ruth Ling, long before Americans discovered Chinese wine-making. 1986
Kamp Kamikaze, Karate Heaven or, "How I spent my summer vacation at Masami Tsuruoka's karate camp, north of Toronto, 1983